AH! Okay every time I go to a website, a little "File Download" thing comes up telling me to download something or some sh'it like that...I DONT KNOW WHATS WRONG!!

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I just click on "Cancel" and it lets me into the site. I've gotten them for things like "this site is in Japanese; download this." But when I cancel, the site comes up just fine... in English.

I think that these are programs to put some kind of tracker on your hard drive in order to know which sites you look at, and that it's used to determine the type of popup ads that you get.

In a worst case scenario, it could be a virus, though basically I think it's just for ads.

Do NOT download anything that you don't want or need, and from anyone that you don't know or "trust."

Originally posted by Mysty Eyes
I just click on "Cancel" and it lets me into the site. I've gotten them for things like "this site is in Japanese; download this." But when I cancel, the site comes up just fine... in English.

I think that these are programs to put some kind of tracker on your hard drive in order to know which sites you look at, and that it's used to determine the type of popup ads that you get.

In a worst case scenario, it could be a virus, though basically I think it's just for ads.

Do NOT download anything that you don't want or need, and from anyone that you don't know or "trust."

Yea I do click cancel, but its not like only at one certain website. It's at alll of them.

it looks like some aol configuration thing....try clicking "open from current location" and see what happens

nvm

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